Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

After making their purchases, the street vendors fan out into the city on bicycles, motorbikes, rickshaws, and trains. Unlike US companies, which can focus on developing their products before raising capital, and on distribution problems after doing so, Indian entrepreneurs have to tackle both before they can woo skeptical investors.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Early Adopters Entrepreneur Magazine 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

A few years back, my three-year-old son Max had an unyielding passion for Thomas the Tank Engine trains. But for Max, what was equally natural was to expect his train portfolio to continue to expand indefinitely, or at least until the enchantment ended. Piece by piece, he accumulated a rather impressive collection.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters System Airlines Training 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Data scientists continue to be in high demand, but companies are also scrambling to attract or develop “business translators” who can ask the data science team the right questions and apply the results to practical business problems. Another critical piece of the puzzle is acquiring the right capabilities.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

If you want to be the kind of nimble business that can make the most of successive waves of tech innovation, you need human beings who can adapt to change. The more people associate technology with fun and not just with expense reports and client presentations, the more they’ll be able to embrace successive waves of tech innovation.

Skills 8

Skills Organization Software Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

There are two ways to grow the workforce: 1) by training students at home, and 2) by importing talent from abroad. This depends partly on how long it takes to develop talent domestically. However, developing the Ph.D. Of course, early adopters also risk exposure to the costs of learning and of less-tested technologies.

Policies 8

Policies Report Technology Incentives 8

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I am a process guy by training, but I make my living from change management. Rogers diffusion of innovation curve. Like the Kubler-Ross model the innovation adoption curve categorises people. It asks how quickly do we take to innovations – another type of change. Written by James Lawther for the Enclaria blog.

ADKAR 60

ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

Benjamin Franklin was an early adopter, though his self-tracking experiments grabbed fewer headlines than his apocryphal kite-flying ones. But they will be used for "softer" disciplines too, like innovation and creativity. That''s a great number. Auto analytics have a long tradition in the U.S.

Taylorism 8

Taylorism Taylor Wireless Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Even the most sophisticated psychometrics and people analytics have yet to make leadership development more science than art. When entrepreneurs, innovators, and executives describe the kind of leaders they want to be and/or hire, an unhappy truth invariably emerges: The attributes they so admire often aren’t the behaviors they display.

Examples 11

Examples Charisma Self-aware Mission Statement 11

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Trained on the bank’s proprietary research reports, this bot grants rapid access to its extensive knowledge base. Private equity firms and insurers were among the early adopters, utilizing these innovations for investment pre-screening and claims automation.

Finance 112

Finance Power Early Adopters Call Center 112

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Here's how they did it, and how they're using social media tools to become more agile, to share knowledge, and to increase the speed of innovation. Senior executives studied the early adopters and tracked adoption rates in monthly meetings. Communications: Develop a communications plan.

Media 15

Media Productivity Products Company 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

. “If your goal is a high adoption rate within the organization, make sure you’re choosing the most approachable, most intuitive system possible,” says Mankins. Technologies that require multi-day training programs and hefty user manuals are a surefire recipe for employee bellyaching and a stalled adoption.

Technology 8

Technology CRM Training System 8

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 9, 2020

The developments made in a wide range of technologies have caused considerable consternation about just what the future of work will be. framework that governments can use to develop a road map to a win–win transition, ” McKinsey say. Supporting and enabling technology adoption. Reform the training and development system.

McKinsey 108

McKinsey Technology Early Adopters Policies 108

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. This expansion shows how social networking systems have begun to cross over from the consumer world to corporations to drive innovation.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8